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 我们在“伦理学”中曾讲过技术，知识与各种观感的分别；
这里所要讨论的主题是大家用来阐释事物的原因与原理的所谓智慧；

All men suppose what is called Wisdom 
to deal with the first causes and the principles of things; 

因此，如上所述，有经验的人较之只有些观感的人更富于智慧，
技术家又较之经验家，大匠师又较之工匠更富于智慧，
而理论部门的知识比之生产部门更应是较高的智慧。

so that, as has been said before, 
the man of experience is thought to be wiser 
than the possessors of any sense-perception whatever, 
the artist wiser than the men of experience, 
the master worker than the mechanic, 
and the theoretical kinds of knowledge to be 
more of the nature of Wisdom than the productive. 

这样，明显地，智慧就是有关某些原理与原因的知识。

Clearly then Wisdom is knowledge about certain principles and causes.


		亚里士多德：《形而上学》981b28	Aristotle, Metaphysics. 981b28